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gathered and people advised him to go to the Durga temple which be did with the greatest difficulty The goddess expressed sympathy for him and told him that the whole region outside the city wall was haunted by spirits But being a stranger to the city, Joyana was ignorant of this. The goddess placed her hand on his wound and he felt considerably relieved
At last he reached his father-in-law's house where the door was latched from inside. He stood outside for a while, as two ladies were in conversation The man had a feeling that they must be his own wife and her mother The mother said to the daughter, 'The meat that ye fetched today was very tasteful and delicious Pray, whose meat was that ?' 'Tasteful it must be, 'said the daughter, 'since it was from the person of thy own son-in-law.' So saying, the lady narrated the entire chain of cvents which Joyana had himself gone through When he came to know that the lady who had cut his flesh was his own wife, the prospect of his life with her suddenly opened before his eyes, and he renounced the world at once and joined the holy order of monks Here am I Well, at this moment, the memory of the entire past had come up and so did I say, without any effort, so to speak, Extreme Fear
“At the end of the fourth quarter returned monk Dhannya and spoke out, Fear, Extreme Fear and on being questioned, he gave the following accout of his past at the request of Abhayakumar
" 'Dhannya was the son of a merchant named Sudhana who lived in the city of Ujjain during the reign of King Ajitasena He was married to a lady named Shrimatı who was devoted and loving Dhannya was so fond of her that he never denied her anything One day, he found her depressed and enquired about the cause of it, but the lady would say nothing. But when he was insistent, she said, I want to eat the meat of a musk deer.' Where do I got
